[G1 General] ei8htohms:
some respoonse (pt II)

Same disclaimer as above applies.

Works fine for me, but I'm on official T-Mo data, etc. I know there were some APN tweaks required of Haykuro's builds to get it working so perhaps some mods of the JF ADP 1.5 build are required for non-T-mo data?

Android 1.5's animated Gif at start-up (after the splash screens) is the flashing "ANDROID" logo (kind of a chrome looking text only affair with a diagonal highlight strobing across it, no robot). One important note on this animated logo - if you're flashing a new update and it seems to be hanging here for a long time, watch it closely. If it has gone into a boot loop (from which it will generally not recover in my experience without rebooting at a minimum and/or rebooting into recovery or fastboot mode to go about fixing the problem), the animation will stop and restart. If it is just taking a very long time to restart (which it will if you have a lot of apps around, especially on an SD card) the animation should be consistent and continuous, so DON"T PULL THE BATTERY!

Settings - Sound and Display - Orientation - (switch on), should get auto-rotate working for you. I always use dxTop, but don't have the dxTop autorotate feature turned on and I get pretty consistent autorotation of the home screen and most apps. It will occasionally NOT rotate when coming back home from some app and rotated at the wrong time (or something) and every once in a while formats the sliders and icons in an unconventional manner (ok, incorrectly), but I've had this problem intermittently in all of these builds (including the HTC ADP) and it's not too bothersome to me. You can just put the phone to sleep and wake it up again or start up another app and it will generally begin auto-rotating again normally.

Strike that. Just tried it without dxTop and the Home screen does not autorotate. Sorry for any confusion.

I can't figure out what is going on with the auto-rotate animations. I've been using the JF ADP since last night and the auto-rotation animation looked exactly like the Haykuro G builds rotation animation (zoom out, one quick wiggle, then pops back). I went to disable it to make sure I knew how to enable it (when starting to answer this question) and now all I can get is the "fancy" auto-rotate animation from the Spare Parts app (zoom out, double wiggle, then zoom back in - frustratingly slow IMHO) or the boring and unattractive fade/blur animation. In most apps the zoom-out/wiggle of the faster variety is still present so that works for me generally speaking. Weird. [/scratches head]

See above: Settings - Sound and Display - Orientation - (switch on)

Sorry about that (see above still).

YES! I bought the Sony HBH-IS800 headphones when Hyakuro got stereo bluetooth working and use them almost daily when commuting, but the experience has been frustrating as well as satisfying (I'd been waiting for the opportunity to switch to wireless headphones for a good couple years now).

They seem to cut out intermittently without any clear reason. I've tried them with various combinations of WiFi, data access and other possible radio resources conflicts enabled or disabled without any encouraging results. At times it seems like keeping the phone in closer proximity to the phones makes them work, at other times it seems like keeping the phone awake (while web surfing or reading a book on TextOnPhone) seems to make them work and sometimes it seems like rebooting the phone and repairing the headphones makes them work.

The bottom line is that sometimes they work basically perfectly for extended periods of time, and sometimes they cut out so often that they are unusable. If I re-pair them when starting to use them each time I seem to get the best results, but not perfectly consistently.

It seems like some of this could be a problem with the headphones themselves, but hopefully some aspect of it can be fixed with the software in the phone (the fact that they can occasionally be made to work quite well is encouraging). Perhaps something similar to the kind of hacks that reportedly worked with the HTC Hermes and other phones might fix it, or maybe HTC or Google will figure something out and release a patch? I am hopeful and it is frustrating and I'm praying that it's not a problem inherent to the headphones, because I love the size and sound quality (when they work!).

Yahoo can be configured with the stock email app, but it requires you to set it up manually. Search Yahoo and and/or email in the Haykuro and/or Dude threads and you'll find the setup instructions. I haven't tried it myself yet.